The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) has received a landmark donation from an anonymous Hong Kong-based collector of 131 works by 78 artists, dubbed the Art Continuum Hong Kong (ACHK). The gift represents the largest contribution of Hong Kong art in the gallery’s history. Three decades in the making, the ACHK collection chronicles social, political and cultural change…
Fashion will soon be front-and-centre at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the institution gets ready to unveil the Condé M. Nast Galleries, a nearly 12,000-sq.-ft space adjacent to the Grand Hall, next spring. Plans to turn the museum’s biggest retail space into a new home for the annual Costume Institute exhibition were first revealed…
Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer whose work extended into contemporary art and museum culture, has died aged 91. Born in Piacenza in 1934, he founded his eponymous label in 1975 with his business partner Sergio Galeotti, and by the 1980s had become one of Italy’s leading designers. His company grew into a global brand…
The Royal Collection Trust is to put on an exhibition of Queen Elizabeth II’s clothes next year, to mark the centenary of her birth. The show will open at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in London in spring 2026. The exhibition, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style, will include the dresses the late…
The Bayeux Tapestry will go on show at the British Museum in London next year after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron of France agreed the historic loan. The display will mark the first time the precious tapestry, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings, has been in Britain…